A handscroll by Xu Naigu at Chiswick Auctions

Lazarus Halstead, head of Asian art at Chiswick Auctions, describes this 33ft (10m) long handscroll as “both a work of art and an historical document”.

The scene by the Qing artist, Xu Naigu (1785-1835), is accompanied by colophons and dedications by…

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